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...publicly denies the U.S. insistence that the CIA cleared the caper with Rome's intelligence service in advance, and this summer an Italian court issued arrest warrants for 22 CIA operatives allegedly involved. Milan prosecutors had no difficulty identifying the officers from cell-phone records and a trail of credit-card charges left at hotels and restaurants. "The spooks aren't very spooky these days," says a U.S. counterterrorism official...
...gambit, Senate Democrats are planning to attack one of President Bush's pillars of homeland security--the USA Patriot Act. The legislation, passed weeks after Sept. 11 and set to expire at the end of the month, gives law enforcement broad authority to search everything from Internet usage to credit-card records--the kind of Big Brother stuff that fires up even the most lackadaisical lefties. And so, despite Republicans' granting some key civil-liberties protections last week, top Democratic aides tell TIME that minority whip Dick Durbin of Illinois plans to lead a filibuster this week. These sources...
After 28 years as a flight attendant, the last few of which brought pay cuts totaling 30%, John Battelli decided it was time to move on. So last week he quit U.S. Airways--with an uncertain pension, mounting credit-card debt and hopes of growing his fledgling personal-trainer business. "My fear is that my ability to earn has fallen by the wayside," says Battelli, 53, of Westminster, Colo. As Christmas approaches, all that weighs heavily. "Come hell or high water," he says, "I'm going to make sure my children have the same holiday magic that...
...thriving. In the U.S., where it is hard to avoid televised poker tournaments, the DOJ is unequivocal: it deems Internet gambling illegal, period. And nearly unstoppable. The DOJ admits that it faces hurdles in bringing to heel companies not based in the U.S. But it has pressured credit-card companies to reject gaming-related transactions and "urged" Internet providers and radio stations not to air online-gambling ads. Yahoo! and Viacom's Infinity Broadcasting are just some of those that are complying rather than cross the feds...
That Gingrich received allegedly illegal campaign funds from GOPAC and $250,000 in "Newt support," ranging from aides' travel expenses to credit-card fees. As a nonfederal political committee, GOPAC was barred from giving to House races...